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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by tinus_hn »

yellowapple wrote: post #101
p1necone wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that those products are actually new things created for those brands, and are (relatively) high quality. This is a cheap emulator box being drop shipped from Aliexpress that already existed before Soulja Boi slapped his name on it. (Not to mention that it's almost certainly violating copyright laws with all the roms bundled with it).

IIRC, Beats are also just rebranded Chinese headphones. You can buy them direct from China for half the price (but without that lowercase "b" on 'em). Besides the blatant copyright infringement, I ain't seeing how this is any worse.

Apple isn’t going to risk their brand by rebranding cheap Chinese crap, they have nothing to gain from that. It’s much more likely they designed headphones and the Chinese factories made cheap clones.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by zimpenfish »

thg wrote: post #95
atombender wrote: post #74

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Thanks. Looks like something I need a Raspberry Pi to run? I'd like something that just works out of the box, zero building or fiddling with hardware.

It doesn't involve much effort. Transfer image to SD card, put SD card into the Pi and that's pretty much about it on the hardware side. After that you just have to transfer some game ROMs, set up your controller(s) and you should be good to go. Takes at most 20 minutes to get it all up and running the first time. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

> Takes at most 20 minutes to get it all up and running

I'm currently on about 2 hours of trying to get it working (having given up several times.) And that wasn't even configuring any exotic emulators or controllers.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by yellowapple »

tinus_hn wrote: post #111
yellowapple wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC, Beats are also just rebranded Chinese headphones. You can buy them direct from China for half the price (but without that lowercase "b" on 'em). Besides the blatant copyright infringement, I ain't seeing how this is any worse.

Apple isn’t going to risk their brand by rebranding cheap Chinese crap, they have nothing to gain from that. It’s much more likely they designed headphones and the Chinese factories made cheap clones.

Apple acquired Beats in 2014. Beats existed - and sold overpriced headphones - for 6 years prior.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by WalterSear »

yellowapple wrote: post #101
p1necone wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that those products are actually new things created for those brands, and are (relatively) high quality. This is a cheap emulator box being drop shipped from Aliexpress that already existed before Soulja Boi slapped his name on it. (Not to mention that it's almost certainly violating copyright laws with all the roms bundled with it).

IIRC, Beats are also just rebranded Chinese headphones. You can buy them direct from China for half the price (but without that lowercase "b" on 'em). Besides the blatant copyright infringement, I ain't seeing how this is any worse.

They aren't. Neither were they invented by Dr. Dre. They were developed in SF, at Ammunition Group LLC.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by just_one_time_ »

p1necone wrote: post #88
erikpukinskis wrote: post #49

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What makes you think he isn’t just interested in video games, discovered emulators and liked the product and saw that it wasn’t being marketed to his audience? Are you familiar with the ways musicians, particularly in hip hop, diversify their business portfolios by selling product lines? Are you familiar with Fenty, Beats by Dre, etc?

The difference is that those products are actually new things created for those brands, and are (relatively) high quality. This is a cheap emulator box being drop shipped from Aliexpress that already existed before Soulja Boi slapped his name on it. (Not to mention that it's almost certainly violating copyright laws with all the roms bundled with it).

Beats headphones are particularly low quality and similarly are rebranded chinese products.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by LolNoGenerics »

atombender wrote: post #61

So has anyone tried the Chinese pirate console that he's apparently rebranding? It looks like it's this one [1], $89 on Amazon. Emulates PS1, GBC, SNES and more, with 843 games, including classics like Super Mario Bros. I'd absolutely love to have something like this in my living room, but I think I'd prefer a somewhat less suspect, more hacker-friendly system where one could easily add new games. But I also don't kn…

After the ausus EEE series became hip I tried a random cheap product which was supposed to be a media center / entertainment system. It was horribly slow, running android. Even more worrying was that they rubbed remote desktop stuff under my nose all the time. I was so scared to handle any remotely personal with it that I gave up on it after 2 sessions of messing with it.

If you don't care about the money, test you luck. But I would be very careful. At least considering security/privacy.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by rasz »

WalterSear wrote: post #114
yellowapple wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC, Beats are also just rebranded Chinese headphones. You can buy them direct from China for half the price (but without that lowercase "b" on 'em). Besides the blatant copyright infringement, I ain't seeing how this is any worse.

They aren't. Neither were they invented by Dr. Dre. They were developed in SF, at Ammunition Group LLC.

Dont you mean the image of Beats was developed by Ammunition Group, and then slapped on Monster headphones?

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by bonestamp2 »

sodafountan wrote: post #80
dleslie wrote: post #15

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Counterfeit items aren't a new thing; these are to video games as knock-off Prada bags are to fashion.

Right, this whole thread reads like hacker news is just discovering knock-offs

I'm sorry if my comment came off that way. I used to buy Folex watches on the street 20 years ago... so knock offs are certainly not new to me. The difference is that the sleazy guy on the street has nothing to lose while best buy, large malls, soulja boy, etc are taking a much larger risk by promoting it because they all have a lot to lose. Knock offs are not surprising -- the risk is.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by tinus_hn »

rasz wrote: post #117
WalterSear wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't. Neither were they invented by Dr. Dre. They were developed in SF, at Ammunition Group LLC.

Dont you mean the image of Beats was developed by Ammunition Group, and then slapped on Monster headphones?

Do you mean to tell me that the headphones were not personally made by Dr Dre? They partnered with Monster as unsurprising a rapper might know what he wants in headphones but doesn’t know how to actually manufacture them.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Post by tinus_hn »

yellowapple wrote: post #113
tinus_hn wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple isn’t going to risk their brand by rebranding cheap Chinese crap, they have nothing to gain from that. It’s much more likely they designed headphones and the Chinese factories made cheap clones.

Apple acquired Beats in 2014. Beats existed - and sold overpriced headphones - for 6 years prior.

Headphones made in partnership with Monster which is hardly ‘cheap Chinese crap’. If anything it’s not cheap.
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